First things first ...

Some musings ...

There is variation in the cosmos ... the cosmos being everything, and the universe being everything we know about.

If there were no variation in the cosmos, there would be uniformity.

Therefore there has to be "at least two states" of whatever there is.

Let us call the first state of the "at least two states", "on" and represent it with the value "1" or "one". Lets then call the second state of the "at least two states", "off" and represent the value "0" or zero.

Ah yes, binary math ... if we can combine 1's and 0's ...

Let us surmise that there is no way to combine or alter the relationship between the separate states of the "at least two states". Then there would be no activity in the cosmos.

Therefore there has to be at least some way to combine or alter the relationship between the separate states of the "at least two states".

If at any time their ceased to be a way to alter the relationship of whatever states existed of the "at least two states", activity would stop.

Whenever the conditions exist for the "at least two states" to alter their relationship, they do -- having the potential of becoming something different. If, in fact another "new state" is formed, than the above statements hold true for this "new state" and it's relationship to the prior existing states of the "at least two states".

If the forming of a "new state" eliminated variation in the cosmos, uniformity would exist and activity would stop. Therefore we can surmise that multiple items in "at least two states" exist simultaneously. And that being in one of "at least two states" applies to a set of items having that characteristic. Thus we have a transcending characteristic across multiple items.

We can surmise that "new state" and its relationship with the "at least two states" -- a set of which the "new state" is now a member -- can form new patterns of states and new patterns of relationships that did not exist prior to the existence of the new states -- even though the potential existed for their existence to be realized in their coming into existence.

We can also surmise that the cosmos has not reached its limit of altering relationships between multiple items with variations in being characterized as one of "at least two states", thereby creating new items with a "new state".

In this process, existence builds upon itself.

And as the 0 and 1 of binary math has the potential for expressing all real numbers, existence has the potential of all that is real.

Note: I will be working on this for awhile ...

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Footnotes:
surmise v. an idea or thought of something as being possible or likely.

surmise. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/surmise (accessed: December 25, 2006).